76R13679 E                           
         By Olivo                                              H.B. No. 3469
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3469:
         By Swinford                                       C.S.H.B. No. 3469
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain county and public health district fees
 1-3     regarding certain food establishments.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 437.0123(a), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A county that has a population of at least 2.8 million
 1-8     or is adjacent to a county of 2.8 million or a public health
 1-9     district at least part of which is in a county that  has a
1-10     population of at least 2.8 million or is adjacent to a county of
1-11     2.8 million may require the payment of a fee for issuing or
1-12     renewing a permit or for performing an  inspection to enforce this
1-13     chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.